Ladies and gentlemen, I am among one of the most frustrated individuals that is probably walking this, these grounds today. Frustrated, first of all, because we are even here. Why, did all of this have to happen and we even have to be here? In my opinion, there ought to be 120 or 150 Branch Davidians carrying on their daily routines, work- [microphone feedback], working, whatever their life entailed, still ought to be happening out here.

From the jury's standpoint, I have found out so much information that were, we were not presented at trial, that makes me not pleased at all, that what has happened to me personally. This sign over here, is one of the very things that I think must be answered for. When we were finally in our deliberation stages, several of us were voicing frustration, over the very fact that there were eleven defendants on trial. One of things in which we found peace, though it was now seems to be false peace, was saying, well, this is just the first step. There will be more to come. The ATF hierarchy surely will be called to answer for what actually took place. If it had not been for those, in control, who ordered the raid, we wouldn't be here today. There would be no reason to be here. It would be status quo.

There were so many things, that should not have happened. I've been- if we sat for seven weeks, seeing, hearing, witnesses, seeing evidence, having things we were bombarded with information. And during that time we would look out across the courtroom, and we saw people. Supposedly these were the Branch Davidians who had committed these heinous crimes. And yet at the same time we didn't know these people. We, we saw one woman, ten men, and that's exactly- really what they were to us. They, they were not individuals. It was not until I had the unfortunate opportunity of going to the courthouse in June, when it was time for the sentencing phase, that I had an opportunity, finally, to meet some of the attorneys, to meet some of the survivors, some of the still existing Branch Davidians, that I came to realize more about who the Branch Davidians are, what they represent, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing, that I have learned about the Branch Davidians that could lead me to believe they were involved in any kind of conspiracy against our government. So that makes me even more pleased that we came out with a verdict that said they were not guilty of a conspiracy to murder anyone. These individuals, as Mr. Zimmerman was saying, although he can speak from a much closer and much more personal angle than I could ever speak- he has to be right on target. All I see are loving, caring, religious folks, who ask for nothing more than to be allowed to carry on with their lives.

When all of this hit the news media- you're probably very much in remembrance of the fact that some of the things that were being said, were that gee, it was a good thing we stopped this now, because when we got in there we found these plans, they had, uh, plans to some buildings in Waco, and surely they had, uh, plans to bomb some buildings in Waco or set them on fire or to do horrible things in the city of Waco. Impossible to believe! When I was going to school over these hills, at Baylor University, I had no idea that there was even a group called the Branch Davidians. How such a group could have lived in Waco and in this area for 35 years peacefully, and then all of a sudden turned into this renegade group, makes no sense. Anyone with any logic could say, that they had no reason to have this thrust upon them. I am here hoping that, even though I wish we didn't have to be here, something must be done to keep this before the American public. To see that it doesn't happen again. To see that no more children die. And that no more crepe myrtles have to be planted row on row. Thank you. [applause]